Julia Roberts

Born October 28th, 1967, Georgia native Julia Roberts was raised in a fervently pro-theater environment. Her parents regularly hosted acting and writing workshops, and both of the Roberts children (Julia and her brother Eric) showed an interest in the performing arts at an early age. Ironically enough, Eric was the first to break into film; in 1978, one year after their father died of lung cancer at 47, Eric Roberts starred in director Frank Pierson's psychological drama King of the Gypsies. Though her older brother would go on to have a solid acting career, it was, of course, Julia Roberts who earned a spot among Hollywood's elite.After making her film debut in Blood Red -- which wouldn't be released until 1989, despite having been completed in 1986 -- and appearing in several late '80s television features, Roberts got her first real break in the 1988 made-for-cable drama Satisfaction. That role, consequently, led to her first significant supporting role -- a feisty pizza parlor waitress in 1989's Mystic Pizza with Annabeth Gish, Lili Taylor, and a then 19-year-old Matt Damon. While Mystic Pizza was not a star-making film for Roberts, it certainly helped earn her the credentials she needed to land the part of Shelby, an ill-fated would-be mother in Steel Magnolias. The 1989 tearjerker found her acting alongside Sally Field and Shirley MacLaine, and culminated in an Oscar nomination for Roberts. While the success of Steel Magnolias played no small part in launching Roberts' career, and undoubtedly secured her role in the mediocre Flatliners (1990) with former flame Kiefer Sutherland, it was director Garry Marshall's romantic comedy Pretty Woman with Richard Gere that served as her true breakthrough role. Roberts' part in Pretty Woman (a good-hearted prostitute who falls in love with a millionaire client) made the young actress a household name and cemented what would become a permanent spot in tabloid fodder. Roberts broke off her engagement with Sutherland in 1991, just three days before they were scheduled to be married, and surprised the American public in 1993, when she began her two-year marriage to country singer Lyle Lovett. Roberts' personal life kept her name in the spotlight despite a host of uneven performances throughout the early '90s (neither 1991's Dying Young or Sleeping With the Enemy garnered much acclaim), as did a reputed feud with Steven Spielberg during the filming of Hook (1991). Luckily, Roberts made decidedly less embarrassing headlines in 1993, when her role alongside future Oscar winner Denzel Washington in The Pelican Brief reaffirmed her status as a dramatic actress. Her career, however, took a turn back to the mediocre throughout the following year; both Prêt-à-Porter and I Love Trouble proved commercial flops, and Mary Reilly (1996) fizzled at the box office as well. The downward spiral reversed directions once again with 1996's Michael Collins and Conspiracy Theory with Mel Gibson, and led to several successful comic roles including Notting Hill with Hugh Grant, Runaway Bride, and most notably, My Best Friend's Wedding with Rupert Everett and a then virtually unknown Cameron Diaz. Roberts' biggest success didn't present itself until 2000, though, when she delivered an Oscar-winning performance playing the title role in Steven Soderbergh's Erin Brockovich. The film, based on the true story of Erin Brockovich, a single mother who, against all odds, won a heated battle against corporate environmental offenders, earned Roberts a staggering 20-million-dollar salary. Officially the highest paid actress in Hollywood, Roberts went on to star in 2001's America's Sweethearts with Billy Crystal, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and John Cusack, as well as The Mexican with Brad Pitt. While on the set of The Mexican, Roberts met cameraman Danny Moder, whom she would marry in 2001 almost immediately after ending a four-year relationship with fellow actor Benjamin Bratt. Indeed, 2001 was a banner year for Roberts; in add

You know you could just ask her out. The beauty from Harvard Law, the blue collar fed from the wrong side of Brooklyn.

Edward Lewis

It's just that very few people surprise me.

Vivian Ward

Well you're lucky. Most of 'em shock the hell out of me.

Edward Lewis

It's just that very few people surprise me.

Vivian Ward

Well you're lucky. Most of 'em shock the hell out of me.

Barbara Weston

Holy shit that's Karen! You remember your Aunt Karen?

Jean Fordham

Kinda.

Barbara Weston

And that must be this year's man!

Bill Fordham

You're so goddamn self-righteous, you know that?

Barbara Weston

Surely you must have realized when you started porkin' Pippi Longstockin' that you were due for some self-righteousness, just a smudge of indignation on my part!

Barbara Weston

Eat

Violet Weston

I'm not hungry!

Barbara Weston

Eat that fish!

Bill Fordham

No!

Barbara Weston

Eat that fish B**ch!!!

Barbara Weston

Eat that fish Bitch!

Barbara Weston

I want you to know that you're not alone, if you need any help.

Violet Weston

No... I don't need help...

Barbara Weston

I-I wanna help...

Violet Weston

I don't need your help.

Barbara Weston

Mom...

Violet Weston

I don't need your help. I have got myself... I know how this goes. Once all the talkin' is threw, people just go back to their own nonsenses. I know that so, don't worry about me. I will manage.

Claire Stenwick

If I told you I loved you, would it make any difference?

Ray Koval

If you told me or if I believed you?

Shelby Eatenton Latcherie

Was she prayin'?

Truvy Jones

Yes.

Shelby Eatenton Latcherie

Why.

Truvy Jones

Because she got me, maybe she was prayin' for Marshall and Drew and Belle. My, she was prayin' for is because we were gossipin'. Maybe she was prayin' because the elastic shot in her pantyhose. Who knows that she prays at the drop of a hat these days.

Truvy Jones

What are your colors, Shelby?

Shelby Eatenton Latcherie

My colors are "blush" and "bashful"

M'Lynn Eatenton

Her colors are "pink" and pink"

Shelby Eatenton Latcherie

My colors are "blush" and "bashful", Mama!

M'Lynn Eatenton

How precious is this weddin' gonna get, I ask you?

Shelby Eatenton Latcherie

Well, we went skinny dippin' and we did things that frightened the fish.

Tess Ocean

Terry, you of all people should know, in your hotel, there's always someone watching.

Barbara Weston

(repeated line) Eat your fish.

Barbara Weston

Listen to me! Die after me, alright. I don't care what else you do, where you go, because I screwed up your life, but just survive. Please!

Violet Weston

Truth is that you just can't compete with a younger woman. It's just one of those unfair life. Is there a younger woman involved?

Barbara Weston

It isn't enough on this topic?

Bill Fordham

Yes, there is a younger woman.

Violet Weston

Well, see? Odds are against you there, babe.

Barbara Weston

Marriage is hard.

Karen Weston

That's one thing about mom and dad. You gotta tip your hat to anybody who can stay married that long.

Ivy Weston

Karen, he killed himself.

Barbara Weston

It's not my fault. Mom told you, not me.

Ivy Weston

There's no difference.

Violet Weston

I'm not hungry!

Barbara Weston

Eat the fish, bitch!

Barbara Weston

Thank God we can't tell the future, we could never get out of bed.

Violet Weston

You can't do this! This is my house! This is my house!

Barbara Weston

You don't get it, do you? You don't get it! I AM runnin' things now!

Barbara Weston

You don't get it, do you? You don't get it! I am runnin' things now!

Violet Weston

You can't do this! This is my house! This is my house!

Barbara Weston

You don't get it, do you? You don't get it! I AM runnin' things now!

Shelby Eatenton Latcherie

Pink is my signature color.

Jerry Welbach

Could you turn that down? You don't even speak Spanish.

Samantha

Emotion transcends language.

Samantha

You know, you're very sensitive for a cold blooded killer.

Leroy

Don't you love him?

Samantha

I think that's the problem. We love each other too much.

Samantha

I'm sensing you have must issues.

Samantha

I am a hostage? This is so Jerry.

Samantha

Real emotion transcends language, Jerry. You don't have to understand their words to feel the pain.

Karen! Shame on you! Don't you know that you're not supposed to say "Cowboys and Indians" You played "Cowboys and Native-Americans". Right, Barb?

Barbara Weston

What are you takin'?

Violet Weston

Oh, leave me alone.

Barbara Weston

Are we breakin' shit now, uh? I can break shit! Hey! See, everybody can break some shit!

Barbara Weston

It's the pills talkin'.

Violet Weston

Pills can't talk.

Barbara Weston

I'm runnin' things now!

Barbara Weston

Eat the fish, bitch!

Grandma

(about Ike) I like his tight but.

Grandma

I like his tight butt.

Maggie Carpenter

Grandma!

Grandma

Well, I do.

Barbara Weston

I'm running things now!

Barbara Weston

Eat the fish bitch!

Patricia Watson

Leave the microfilm in, baby.

Barbara Weston

Let's all say horseshit!

Ed Masry

PG&E is demanding 90. In other words, everybody. Do you understand? This is serious.

Erin Brockovich

And, what, Ed? I'm not serious?

Ed Masry

You're emotional, you're erratic. You say anything, you make this personal, and it isn't.

Erin Brockovich

Not personal? That is my work! My sweat! My time away from my kids! If that's not personal, I don't know what is-- [starts to cough hardly]

Ed Masry

Hey, come on. Come on. Go home. Get well.
Because you're no good to me sick. I need you, all right? This case needs you.

Erin Brockovich

Did you tell them that?

Theresa Dallavale

Annabelle Daniels.

Erin Brockovich

714-454-9346. 10 years old, 11 in May. Lived on the plume since birth. Wanted to be a synchronized swimmer so she spent every minute she could in the PG&E pool. She had a tumor in her brain stem detected last November, an operation on Thanksgiving, shrunk it with radiation after that. Her parents are Ted & Rita. Ted's got Crohn's disease, Rita has chronic headaches, and nausea, and underwent a hysterectomy last fall. Ted grew up in Hinkley. His brother Robbie, and his wife May and their five children: Robbie Jr, Martha, Ed, Rose & Peter *also* lived on the plume. Their number is 454-9554. You want their diseases?

Theresa Dallavale

Okay, look, I think we got off on the wrong foot here.

Erin Brockovich

That's all you got, lady. Two wrong feet in fucking ugly shoes.

Erin Brockovich

How could you take this away from me?

Ed Masry

No one's taking anything, will you let me--

Erin Brockovich

Bullshit! You stuck me in Siberia dictating to some goddamn steno clerk so you could finish this thing without me!

Theresa Dallavale

Erin, you don't even have phone numbers for some of them.

Erin Brockovich

Whose number do you need?

Theresa Dallavale

Everyone's. This is a lawsuit Erin. We need to be able to contact the plaintiffs.

Erin Brockovich

I said, whose number do you need?

Katherine Watson

I don't even want you to like it. What I want you to do is consider it.

The Evil Queen

Brighton, a word, please.

Brighton

Yes, Your Majesty.

The Evil Queen

Loose lips, sink ships.

Brighton

Yes, indeed, Your Majesty. Exactly which ship would you like sunk?

The Evil Queen

It's an expression, Brighton!

Danny Ocean

Does he make you laugh?

Tess Ocean

He doesn't make me cry

Tess Ocean

He doesn't make me cry.

Joan Brandwyn

Do you think I'll wake up one morning and regret not being a lawyer?

Katherine Watson

Yes, I'm afraid that you will.

Joan Brandwyn

Not as much as I'd regret not having a family, not being there to raise them. I know exactly what I'm doing and it doesn't make me any less smart. This must seem terrible to you.

Katherine Watson

I didn't say that.

Joan Brandwyn

Sure you did. You always do. You stand in class and tell us to look beyond the image, but you don't. To you a housewife is someone who sold her soul for a center hall colonial. She has no depth, no intellect, no interests. You're the one who said I could do anything I wanted. This is what I want.

Erin Brockovich

Bite my ass, Krispy Kreme!...

Erin Brockovich

Bite my ass, Krispy Kreme!

M'Lynn Eatenton

I don't wanna alienate the entire neighborhood

M'Lynn Eatenton

I don't wanna alienate the entire neighborhood.

Shelby Eatenton Latcherie

I think the neighborhood would feel more alienated if they got covered in bird shit at my reception.

M'Lynn Eatenton

Pretty talk!! Do ya have to be so crude?!!

M'Lynn Eatenton

Pretty talk! Do ya have to be so crude?!

Anna

Love bores you.

Dan

No, it disappoints me.

Mercedes Tainot

We're going so slow, a cat could knock us over. You know that, right?

Katherine Watson

It says here you're pre-law. What law school do you want to go to?

Joan Brandwyn

I hadn't really thought about it. I always thought that after graduation I'd get married.

Katherine Watson

And then?

Joan Brandwyn

And then... I'd be married.

Katherine Watson

You can do both.

Anna

I don't kiss strange men

Dan

Neither do I.

Anna

He tastes like you, only sweeter.

Erin Brockovich

Piece of crap!, with no signal!..

Erin Brockovich

[Erin tries to use her cell phone but has no reception] Oh, you fucking piece of CRAP with no signal!

Danny Ocean

Does he make you laugh?

Tess Ocean

He doesn't make me cry.

The Queen

It would warm my ancient heart if you could accept this modest gift on your wedding day

The Queen

It would warm my ancient heart if you could accept this modest gift on your wedding day.

Snow White

It's very kind of you

Snow White

It's very kind of you.

The Queen

Just one bite... and a good fortune to the fairest of them all

The Queen

Just one bite... and a good fortune to the fairest of them all.

George

How many numbers you got?

Erin Brockovich

Oh, I got numbers comin' outta my ears. For instance: ten.

George

Ten?

Erin Brockovich

Yeah. That's how many months old my baby girl is.

George

You got a little girl?

Erin Brockovich

Yeah. Yeah, sexy, huh? How 'bout this for a number? Six. That's how old my other daughter is, eight is the age of my son, two is how many times I've been married - and divorced; sixteen is the number of dollars I have in my bank account. 850-3943. That's my phone number, and with all the numbers I gave you, I'm guessing zero is the number of times you're gonna call it.

Ed Masry

In a law firm you may want to re-think your wardrobe a little.

Erin Brockovich

Well as long as I have one ass instead of two I'll wear what I like if that's all right with you. You might want to re-think those ties.

Erin Brockovich

That's all you got lady. Two wrong feet and fucking ugly shoes...

Snow White

snow will have to do what snow does best snow will have to fall

Snow White

Snow will have to do what snow does best. Snow will have to fall.

The Evil Queen

Snow will have to do what Snow does best. Snow will have to fall.

The Queen

Every person has magic in them, they just don't know they possess it.

The Evil Queen

Puppy love,what am I gonna do with puppy love

The Evil Queen

Puppy love, what am I gonna do with puppy love.

The Evil Queen

It's not a wrinkle... it's a crinkle.

Larry

I'm Larry, the doctor.

Anna

Hello, doctor Larry.

Larry

Feel free to call me The Sultan.

Dan

i'v got to see u

Dan

I'v got to see you.

Anna

no, u r taken

Anna

No, you are taken.

Dan

u ruined my life

Dan

You ruined my life.

Anna

u'll get over it

Anna

You'll get over it.

Tess Ocean

oh no....Danny?

Tess Ocean

Oh no... Danny?

Danny Ocean

what?

Danny Ocean

What?

Tess Ocean

uhhhh....there's water in the basement, and the pilot light is out.

Tess Ocean

Uhhhh... there's water in the basement, and the pilot light is out.

Danny Ocean

hang up.

Danny Ocean

Hang up.

Anna

Why is the sex so important?

Larry

Because I'm a fucking caveman!

Vivian Ward

I want the fairy tale.

Erin Brockovich

They?re called boobs, Ed.

Erin Brockovich

They're called boobs, Ed.

Anna Scott

After all, I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.

Edward Lewis

What's your name?

Vivian Ward

What do you want it to be?

Vivian Ward

You're late.

Edward Lewis

You're stunning.

Vivian Ward

You're forgiven.

Liz Gilbert

It won't last forever. Nothing does.

Vivian Ward

I appreciate this whole seduction thing you've got going on here, but let me give you a tip: I'm a sure thing.